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American States Water Co – ‘8-K’ for 3/16/20 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Wednesday, 3/18/20, at 4:31pm ET   ·   For:  3/16/20   ·   Accession #:  1056903-20-25   ·   File #:  1-14431

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 3/18/20  American States Water Co          8-K:1,2,9   3/16/20   13:2.1M

Current Report   —   Form 8-K   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 8-K         Current Report                                      HTML     30K 
 2: EX-10.1     Material Contract                                   HTML    869K 
 9: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     50K 
12: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     12K 
11: XML         XBRL Instance -- a8-kform_htm                        XML     17K 
 8: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX      6K 
 4: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- awr-20200316_cal                XML      7K 
 5: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- awr-20200316_def                 XML     39K 
 6: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- awr-20200316_lab                      XML     79K 
 7: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- awr-20200316_pre               XML     42K 
 3: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- awr-20200316                          XSD     16K 
13: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks               14±    21K 
10: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001056903-20-000025-xbrl      Zip    170K

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